On Teh Road has begun a new life, finding a temporary home with a friend who has yet to read the book. I'll find out from him if the medium is conducive to reading the prose, and if the wire hanger and string hold up over time. Hopefully it is as close to the original... Continue Reading →
Back on April 1st I wrote about my efforts to transcribe the book On The Road, specifically the 2007 version of the unedited first draft, all 125,00 words of it on to a 50 yard roll of trace paper via an electric typewriter. The typewriter is falling apart, but the scroll is finished. more to... Continue Reading →
A few very rough sketches and screen shots of a set of stairs based on equilateral triangles and Carlo Scarpa's concrete stair at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona.
Various sketches of meditation huts designed out of bamboo
The 200' by 600' grid of Manhattan is broken and carved up by a few avenues, with this building here on 6th Ave in Soho. The street grid is a bit skewed, resulting in an acute angle at the intersection. If you look closely, behind the giant billboard, you can see the brick courses meeting... Continue Reading →
Why are medinas worth exploring? They are some of the most densely populated areas on earth and represent some of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Their organization and structure are informed by climate, religion, social structure and transportation modeled after pedestrians and goods-laden animals. Public and private realm are extremely well defined and delineated. In some places these... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 